Word: compassing
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...either knows where he is going. Or he don't. And if he don't, he has to think, to chin-chin with himself and with his associates, to spin the compass and find North...
...Evans boomed out advice to a deferential huddle of ad-agency men. Last week Veteran Adman Emerson Foote, 50, a prototype for one of the leading characters in Wakeman's fiction, took the advice in real life, chin-chinned with himself and with his associates and spun the compass. He thereupon quit as executive vice president of McCann-Erickson, world's second largest ad agency (after J. Walter Thompson), surrendering a salary "well up in six figures." Said he: "Last year I flew 64,000 scheduled airline miles and found myself concentrating on meeting problems. I got tired...
...advisers and princes, ballasted by 300 pieces of luggage-was a brilliant pageant of flowing robes and fancy headdresses. There seemed to be a retainer on hand to perform every minute function: the royal chief steward came along to oversee the seasoning of the King's food; a compass-bearer kept track of the direction of Mecca for the five daily prayer rituals of the King; there was a royal barber, a coffee-brewer, a keeper of the royal jewels. One man, Abdullah Balkhair, handled the press for the King as a sort of Jim Hagerty in sheik...
...sprinkled gold dust on the rice before serving his master's curry. On arriving, the Aga Khan would give Head Porter Chasper $10,000 to be handed out when the Aga Khan needed pocket money; the hotel would provide the Aga Khan (an Ismaili Moslem) with a compass, so he could determine the proper direction to face while praying. Once King Albert I of the Belgians, a hotel guest, greeted Host Badrutt: "You are King of St. Moritz. I am King of the Belgians. I greet you as a colleague...
Although all of Compass Island's instruments have been laboratory-tested, they have never before been tested at sea or linked together to form a whole system. With observing scientists from M.I.T. and Sperry Gyroscope aboard, Compass Island will put to sea in January to test SINS' accuracy in familiar Atlantic coastal waters. After that it will put back into port periodically to take on new equipment for testing. If the system functions as well as the Navy hopes, it may well be installed aboard submarines and other missile-launching vessels by the summer...